"Xbox" is a pretty good name for a console, right? Yeah, of course it is. You know what isn't? Literally everything else Microsoft considered before landing on "Xbox".

In an interview with Edge, Xbox godfather Seamus Blackley explained that "xbox" (shortened from DirectX Box) was not legally sound as a product name, so they went through a series of names and codenames, and eventually the product naming guys proved so inept that the shaky ground Xbox name stuck. Here's what it was up against, somehow: